Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Jill Tarter (astrobiologist) and Will Wright (the Sims, Spore) discussing human evolution and extraterrestrial life. David Foster Wallace gives a commencement speech that talks about everyday drudgery. Some people are using pranks to wake themselves and others from the routine. Were bad weather and economy the real reason for witch lynchings? Crowdsourcing works. Counterproductive: repression in a free country.

The nature of mirrors

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Story of the two schoolboys who spent seven years remaking Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. View from the ground; a journalist in Iraq. The technological revolution that is changing the nature of war. The irrationality of deciding whom to vote for. The hidden legacy of Nikola Tesla. Brain cell versus (image) the universe. That is not how you do it, you fail.